League of Women Voters: "Corporations are Not People"

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS TO PRESENT AUTHOR OF “CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE”

The League of Women Voters of Ridgefield, together with five area Leagues, will present Jeff Clements, author of “Corporations Are Not People,” as guest speaker at a special community presentation to be held on Wednesday, September 12 at Westport Town Hall at 7:00 p.m. The event, co-sponsored with the Leagues of Fairfield, Norwalk, Weston, Westport and Wilton, will focus on the controversial Supreme Court Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling, and will be open to the public.
A Massachusetts attorney, Clements is President and Co-Founder of the non-partisan Free Speech for People, and is spearheading its national campaign to challenge the creation of Constitutional rights for corporations and overturn the Citizens United decision. In his presentation, he will discuss the history of corporate “personhood” in U.S. law, its impact on political campaign finance, and current national efforts to pass a Constitutional Amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision.
A brief Q & A will follow the presentation. Additionally, Barnes & Noble will have copies of his 2012 book available for purchase at the event. For more information about the September 12 presentation, contact (203)227-6114 or by e-mail at dskutch@yahoo.
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MORE ABOUT JEFF CLEMENTS ….
Jeff Clements served as Assistant Attorney General and Chief of the Public Protection & Advocacy Bureau in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office from early 2007 to 2009. In this capacity, he led more than 100 attorneys and staff in the enforcement of environmental, healthcare, financial services, civil rights, antitrust and consumer protection laws. From 1996 to 2000, he had served as Assistant Attorney General, and worked on litigation against the tobacco industry and handled a range of other investigations and litigation to enforce consumer protection and antitrust laws.

Clements has been a partner in the Boston law firms of Mintz Levin and Clements & Clements, LLP, which he founded in 2003. He has also practiced in Maine, where he represented clients in a variety of litigations, investigations and prosecutions. He was also Co-Founder and Director of Friends of Casco Bay, an environmental advocacy organization focused on protection and stewardship of Maine’s Casco Bay.